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(1997) Science and the quest for reality, Dordrecht, Springer.
… Scientific work is chained to the course of progress; whereas in the realm of art there is no progress in the same sense. It is not true that the work of art of a period that has worked out new technical means, or, for instance, the laws of perspective, stands therefore artistically higher than a work of art devoid of all knowledge of those means and laws — if its form does justice to the material, that is, if its object has been chosen and formed so that it could be artistically mastered without applying those conditions and means. A work of art which is genuine "fulfilment" is never surpassed; it will never be antiquated. Individuals may differ in appreciating the personal significance of works of art, but no one will ever be able to say of such a work that it is "outstripped' by another work which is also "fulfilment."
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25249-7_17
Full citation:
Weber, M. (1997)., Science as a vocation, in A. Tauber (ed.), Science and the quest for reality, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 382-394.
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